Concepts

Each page covers one piece of how Quayside works. Read them in order if you’re new; jump in if you have a specific question.

• Classes and instances — the three-layer identity model
• Policies — what a policy contains and how it drives the proxy
• Detection — adapters, stages, effects, the cascade
• Audit — what gets recorded and how to query it
• Shadow discovery — what happens to unknown agents
• Tokens and budgets — cost recording and cap enforcement